Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist) I remember, in this...
When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many...
The NKF fiasco was a shame for a tightly regulated country like Singapore. Not sufficient checks and balances can create this sort of problem. By the time the...
...the remark said to have been made by that great twentieth-century scientist Albert Einstein, that although he was not a religious man, if he had been one,...
[D]on't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. Satchel Paige (1906?-1982, American Baseball Player) [A] Buddhist goes before an image and...
It is important to realize that the Buddha was the first religious thinker in history to emphasis the equality of humanity. He firmly stated this by insisting...
Feb 10, 2006 http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,370141,00.html? Birth dates never clash negatively with those of 'Buddhist gods' IN THE...
Do Buddhists Worship the Buddha? With regards to the article "Understanding the Muslim Reaction" as featured in "Today" on 9 February 2006, it was written...
In Tibet we say: "Negative action has one good quality: it can be purified." So there is always hope. Even murderers and the most hardened criminals can change...
At least we must find for a little while Solitude and Rest. At least we must have for all that live a little place of love in our chest. At least we must learn...
I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days. ...
Individualism, the bedrock virtue of modern societies, begins to shade over from the proud self-sufficiency of free people into a kind of closed selfishness,...
One technique for arousing compassion for a person who is suffering is to imagine one of your dearest friends, or someone you really love, in that person's...
It will not be possible even today in regard to Buddhism that it is worn out because it is rooted upon certain fixed principles that can never be altered. ...
When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime - and it is up to...
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. Herbert Samuels Inner peace, which is the principal characteristic of...
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. K.S.M. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen...
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." Charles Caleb Colton A real friend is one who walks in when the rest...
What the world needs more than anything is bodhisattvas, active servants of peace, "clothed," as Longchenpa said, "in the armor of perseverance," dedicated to...
Devadatta was an elephant hunter in one of his previous existences. At that time, in a certain forest, there lived a large number of elephants. One day, the...
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. Samuel Butler One strong in faith but weak in wisdom has uncritical and groundless...
It is probable that the tendency towards self-government evidenced by these various forms of corporate activity received fresh impetus from the Buddhist...
Western medicine emphasizes surgery too much. Doctors want to take out things that are not wanted. When we have something irregular in our body, too often they...
The principle of dependent arising (paticcasamuppada) is used by the Buddha as an explanation of every form of experience, whether it be in the sphere of the...
The preciousness of Dharma as medicine is one of the great themes of Mahayana Buddhism. In this brief excerpt from Shantideva's classic text of 187 stanzas on...
The ultimate lesson all of us have is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-, Swiss-born...
During a student uprising in Burma, when the soldiers entered a temple to roust out dissidents, they would take off their shoes yet hold onto their guns. They...
Ven. Channa was found guilty of a wrong doing. But he was not willing to accept that as a wrong doing. The Buddha was informed of this. The Buddha assembled...
Listen for Buddha’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He's the one who will keep you on track. ... Meet your soulmate! Yahoo! Asia presents...
The 8-Fold Path is so important that the Buddha included it in the very first discourse that he gave, The Dhammacakkappattana Sutta (The Turning of the Wheel...
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